Creating qualitative datasets in geoarchaeology: An easy-applicable description template for archaeological thin section analysis using Stoops 2003

Marcazzan, Diana; Meinekat, Sarah Ann

doi:10.1016/j.mex.2022.101663

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“…We performed the thin section analysis with a Zeiss Axio Imager petrographic microscope under plane-polarized (PPL) and cross-polarized (XPL) light. The description of the thin sections follows Courty et al (1989), Nicosia and Stoops (2017) and Stoops (2021) employing a systematic descriptive template (Marcazzan and Meinekat 2022). Following description of the samples, we categorized individual microstratigraphic units into different types, following the (micro-)facies concept (Courty 2001;Goldberg et al 2009).…”

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Burning, dumping, and site use during the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic at Hohle Fels Cave, SW Germany

Marcazzan

Miller

Conard

2022

Archaeol Anthropol Sci

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Dumped deposits are a valuable source of information for inferring past behaviour. They provide insights into site maintenance, social organization and settlement dynamics. Hohle Fels Cave in SW Germany offers a unique opportunity to investigate the importance of dumping and site maintenance during the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic of the Swabian Jura. In this paper, we analyse anthropogenic deposits at Hohle Fels employing micromorphology and fabric analysis in order to reconstruct their formation and understand the human behaviours behind their accumulation. Our study indicates that dumping residues from combustion features in the interior of Hohle Fels Cave has a long history extending back to Neanderthal occupation at the site during the Middle Palaeolithic. Despite some reworking via down-slope movement, most of the features demonstrate that the site’s inhabitants dumped burnt material, which was previously the fuel for domestic hearths, in specific locations within the cave. The intentionality of the action and the characteristics of the features provide important information for reconstructing the mode and spatial organization of occupations at the site. The combustion features from the Middle Palaeolithic allow us to reassess the hypothesis that Neanderthals’ use of the site was less intense and documented a lesser degree of spatial patterning than subsequent Upper Palaeolithic occupations. This research also provides insight for examining the regional variability of pyrotechnology and site maintenance during the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic.

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Burning, dumping, and site use during the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic at Hohle Fels Cave, SW Germany

Marcazzan

Miller

Conard

2022

Archaeol Anthropol Sci

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Recording, Sharing and Linking Micromorphological Data: A Two-Pillar Database System

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Pümpin

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Open Archaeology

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In archaeological soil and sediment micromorphology, research is grounded in observations made with petrographic microscopes. These observations are recorded using standardised terms and microphotographs. The two-pillar database system allows a user-friendly recording of these observations with I-GEOARCHrec and the possibility to link these data to field pictures and microphotographs publicly available in I-GEOARCHive.

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Creating qualitative datasets in geoarchaeology: An easy-applicable description template for archaeological thin section analysis using Stoops 2003

Cited by 2 publications

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Burning, dumping, and site use during the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic at Hohle Fels Cave, SW Germany

Burning, dumping, and site use during the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic at Hohle Fels Cave, SW Germany

Recording, Sharing and Linking Micromorphological Data: A Two-Pillar Database System

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